The event, which is set for April 18, was supposed to see UFC Lightweight Champion, Khabib Nurmagomedov, defend against Ferguson. Of course, the fight between those two was canceled for a fifth time as Nurmagomedov is unable to leave his home country of Russia due to travel restrictions surrounding the COVID-19 crisis.

So, in typical fashion, the UFC president found a stellar replacement for Nurmagomedov to make sure UFC 249 goes down without a hitch.

UFC 249 remains without an official location since the Barclays Center backed out due to the coronavirus outbreak. However, White promises that this fight will go down “somewhere on Earth” on the originally planned date.